Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A waterfall or rapids.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To assault.
  • noun A leap.
  • noun An assault.
  • noun A rapid in some rivers: as, the Sault Ste. Marie.
  • A bad spelling of salt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun U.S. A rapid in some rivers.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Obsolete French, from Old French, leap, waterfall; see somersault.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Aphetic form of assault.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle French sault, saut, from Latin saltus.

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